My esteemed colleague Dr. Hanford Bong would like me to pass on the following message: I receieved this directly from Flabojah..

"greetings from Flabojah, Ubekistan. I have been immersed in research here for my gold dredging operations for the last several weeks, and have been unable to post my usual caustic and highly inflammatory posts. The gold dredging is going very well, and I should be able to afford that prosthetic device you all know I needed, (but were afraid to ask about) and a few other things of a heavy nature. I do miss you all warmly and fondly, (all of you except Baxdog, that is) so for anyone wondering "where fo art thou" please visit my website at www.KEEPMASTER.COM, for updates on the dredging, the briefcase UFO detector and other inventions I have been working with and designing. Some of you may have noticed that I have lost a little weight, grown a few inches taller, and am wearing a funny hat. This is in no way reason for you to be alarmed. I will return to my flaccid state soon, and as General Douglass F. Steward said in 1956.."I WILL go to Korea".

I hope to be reunited with y'all very soon. At the present time, I am entertaining a small group of local herders in my tent for some yak-tea liquor, silly games and a couple of indigenous dances afterwards. I wish you were here to see it!

All except baxdog, of course. He is boycotted because when I asked him to invest in my gold-dredging operation, he demurred most vociferously, and very rudely.

Bax, next time, a simple "no" would be sufficient. You did not have to come to my house and take it to the level you did! After all, we have been friends a long time and throwing my triple neck steel guitar thru my front window was just plain tasteless and uncalled for!

"Hi everyone !
I am back from the December dredging trip.
The final version of the dredge tested good.
I ran it as a test for 4 hours in tailings only and recovered an American penny weight
of fines.
What this means is that the machine is capable of recovering an ounce of gold (down
to micro dust) every 40 hours IN THE WORST CASE SCENARIO....I.E. someone else's
cleaned dirt / tailings. In any other situation it should recover at double the rate.
As a result I have now edited the pages that describe how to make it.

On a side note:
I have also developed a few other unique systems that process and recover all the fine gold WITHOUT USING CHEMICALS.
UPDATE: o.k. it isn't over yet....I am attempting to melt gold using the kitchen
micro wave. Stumbling on to stuff....kind fun.

I will also be attempting via reverse osmosis/temperature induction to change my tiki bar into a walmart.

Hi Y'all! From my state of ban-ness, I greet you all with the utmost southern comfort and hospitality. I am wearing my fez right now, and am reading all these posts from my tent high up on the Russian Steppes. Last night, we ate some cloned fugu-berries, listened to our favorite band the agents of scooby-doo, and did an emergency cystoscopy on a siberian lynx, who we named "Robert Draslin".

We have had some amazing successes with the proto-type liquid separator. I designed this to mainly produce "Lant", which is industrial grade urine used for dying and etching steel. Funny thing is you can drink it too. Which we did.

Anyway (Woo-ha!) we did some more silly little native dances that were done due to the close proximity of the gooseberry festival. These were done dirt cheap. There is one dance called "tumulatoda" which goes like this: Flap Flap Flap (creepy, huh?)and the locals here really get into, especially when drunk off Lant, which I turned them onto.

I advise everyone to come on in, roll up your sleeves, pick up that 7" langstrom-Gangler wrench and get crackin! Now that the space race is on, there will be plenty of work for everyone, despite the fact that the russians just beat the pants off us!

I plan on being at the Kookylau 07, to be held in Las Vegas next year. I will have my own booth, where I will be selling little items made from gold I dredged using my new proto-type. Hope to see y'all there!!!!!